Soup Weather

Oh yes....it's still been cold enough to induce cravings of home made soup.  I got out the old trusty Six Ingredients or Less Slow Cooker cook book by Carlean Johnson and turned to page 35 for a GREAT recipe for onion soup.

10 cups of yellow onion sliced thin
1/2 cup butter
2 cans condensed beef broth
1 1/3 cups dry white wine
french bread slices
shredded mozzarella cheese
Cook on low 3-4 hours

I know...I know..you're asking ok Tina what did you change this time....hehehe....NOTHING!!!!!!

This soup was ssssooooooo easy.  Not only was it easy but it had a great flavor. 

Now that I think about it I did put garlic butter on the bread.  LOL 

While we were eating we were thinking of many different things you could do with this onion soup.  You could brown hamburger and saute some veggies and throw in this great onion soup.  Or how about thickening the soup and making a gravy and top hamburger patties with it. 

Well that would take us to our next recipe we tried which was on page 39.
1lb stew meat, bite-size
10 small red potatoes, slice in halves or quarters
5 medium carrots
1 can condensed cream of mushroom soup
1 can condensed french onion soup - or  your home made soup you made above :-)
1/3 cup red wine

I chopped the potatoes and carrots and just dumped everything in the slow cooker along with some very finely chopped stalk of celery, mixed it up and added salt and pepper.  This cooked on high about 5 hours; the recipe says 8 - 10 hours.

Again, this was a great quick and simple 'stew'.  The stew meat was tender and the veggies done just right.

So both of these recipes get a thumbs up!

Stay tuned.............